Stuff be happ'nin'...
Dec. 8th, 2005 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpOne of the goals of this trip to Houston is to have the NASA flight surgeons poke and prod my creaking carcass and (hopefully) certify me as capable of continuing to do my work in the MCC for another couple of years. I awoke a few minutes ago to find out via email that I should report to the medical facility at JSC tomorrow at 7:30 am for lab work (blood, urine) and then return in the early afternoon for the first part of the physical.
It was fortunate that I rose when I did (around 6:30 pm), as I started preparing a boxed dinner before sitting down to check my mail, and the rules state that I must fast for 12 hours prior to the lab work. (Technically, I have between 5 and 65 more minutes within which to stuff my face with substances other than water, if I so choose, but I digress...)
After four days on the job, I have put in just over a 40-hour work week. Today, after returning to my room, I got a call at about 10 am asking if I could cover an EVA telecon at Building 1 at 10:30. I did, and then went to my client's office to speak with a colleague about helping edit a glossary that is descended from the one I developed back when I worked as an employee there.
I have been finding it difficult to stick to a preset sleep schedule when I work nights, reverting to a simple sleep policy that I adopted when I was in the Marines: never pass up an opportunity for some rack drill.
When I got the call for the telecon this morning, I was in bed, just drifting off, and would surely have fallen asleep had the phone not rung. After visiting the client's office, I ate lunch at a Vietnamese phơ restaurant and returned to my room, falling asleep around 1:30 or 2 pm. The quality of the sleep was poor; I woke several times and had to force myself to go back to sleep each time.
* * * In other news, my brother emailed to tell me that his daughter had gaven birth to a girl in Charlotte 8 weeks ago. Congratulations, Kristi!
I ran across the Okapi framework while surfing yesterday. It looks as if it may be able to do what I require in the translation memory department, though that really shouldn't deter me from getting more comfortable with SQL.
Hmmm... two and a half hours until I ought to leave for work. Perhaps I should try for a power nap?
Cheers...
It was fortunate that I rose when I did (around 6:30 pm), as I started preparing a boxed dinner before sitting down to check my mail, and the rules state that I must fast for 12 hours prior to the lab work. (Technically, I have between 5 and 65 more minutes within which to stuff my face with substances other than water, if I so choose, but I digress...)
After four days on the job, I have put in just over a 40-hour work week. Today, after returning to my room, I got a call at about 10 am asking if I could cover an EVA telecon at Building 1 at 10:30. I did, and then went to my client's office to speak with a colleague about helping edit a glossary that is descended from the one I developed back when I worked as an employee there.
I have been finding it difficult to stick to a preset sleep schedule when I work nights, reverting to a simple sleep policy that I adopted when I was in the Marines: never pass up an opportunity for some rack drill.
When I got the call for the telecon this morning, I was in bed, just drifting off, and would surely have fallen asleep had the phone not rung. After visiting the client's office, I ate lunch at a Vietnamese phơ restaurant and returned to my room, falling asleep around 1:30 or 2 pm. The quality of the sleep was poor; I woke several times and had to force myself to go back to sleep each time.
I ran across the Okapi framework while surfing yesterday. It looks as if it may be able to do what I require in the translation memory department, though that really shouldn't deter me from getting more comfortable with SQL.
Hmmm... two and a half hours until I ought to leave for work. Perhaps I should try for a power nap?
Cheers...
